Word: adroitness
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What's Good for G. M. . . . Behind Sihanouk's odd choice of ministers is an adroit policy. With opponents in his very Cabinet, Sihanouk is able to keep an eye on his foes, and to force them to share blame for a worsening financial situation. He has allowed the Cabinet to slash government expenditures, but vetoed its proposal to nationalize the French rubber plantations, which are a prime source of foreign exchange. "The French might be capitalists," Sihanouk said, "but they are capable." He also delights in pointing out to his left-leaning intellectuals the failure of Cambodia...
...Little Harold." Labor's left wing supports Harold Wilson, 46, an adroit, urbane debater and topnotch intellect who was an Oxford economics don at 21. As President of the Board of Trade in Clem ent Attlee's Cabinet, pipe-puffing Yorkshireman Wilson has had more administrative experience than any of his rivals, is the party's foreign policy specialist. Despite his brilliance and charm, Wilson's foes, who call him "Little Harold," regard him as a slippery opportunist who backs only winning causes-though he miscalculated in 1960 when he attempted to grab the leadership while...
...after the Government had called but one witness, and the party none. The verdict subjects the party to fines totaling $120,000. But the total was only a beginning. The appeals will go on, perhaps for years. For if nothing else, the Communist Party, U.S.A., has shown itself notably adroit in taking full advantage of all the legal safeguards of a free society...
...ramblers and jugglers John Leubdorf (to borrow from his name the "S" he neglects to place in "Nietzche") is the most adroit magician and so the most irritating, for one feels that if he stopped sliding loosely from metaphor to metaphor he might make something of the more melodic lines of "End of Eroica." On the other hand, looking at "Nietzche," I'm not so sure. What is one to make...
Krips took over the Buffalo Symphony in 1954, and under him it has performed with a professional polish that would do credit to a city several times Buffalo's size. Part of the trick in leading an orchestra, suggests Krips, is adroit use of psychology. For the first year, he asked the Buffalo musicians to pray before every concert: "I told them we are not playing Beethoven, we are privileged to play Beethoven; let us pray that we have the blessing to play it well...